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 is represented: the surface is blue-black, with delicately fashioned enrichments of bronze, gilt, or possibly silver-gilt. There is ample record to show the high pitch to which the decoration of salades was carried. The Negroli Celata in the Royal Armoury, Madrid, which we described among those of the Italian form (Fig. 353), has applied silver plates to increase its splendour. Another salade of the "tailed" or French type in the same collection is adorned in a precisely similar manner (Fig. 389). This, like the other salade at Madrid, is also the work of a Negroli, the only other instance, we believe, of that family of armourers producing a head-piece on these lines. Like its companion Celata it was in the Armoury of Charles V, and bears the same tradition attaching to it of having been originally made for Boabdil (No. D 13, 1892 Catalogue). It will be noted in the illustration that in addition to the tail-piece being a separate plate and riveted to the skull, the decorated borders are likewise applied. The engraving upon the surface is exquisite, and the ornamentation is beautifully balanced; but it is possibly a little more Hispano-Moorish in design than the decoration of the other salade in the same collection.

French type, but the work of a Negroli of Milan, about 1500. From the armoury of Charles V D 13, Royal Armoury, Madrid